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"Although tens of thousands of lost or stolen Canadian passports have fallen into criminal hands over the last few years, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said swift action rendered the documents useless. "(The missing passport) is immediately communicated onto the policing networks and into the border agencies and that's done on a 24-7 basis," he said. "Those passports are immediately annulled and deactivated." Some of the 50,000 lost and stolen passports obtained by criminals may have fallen into terrorist hands, said a report in Le Journal de Montreal. Day said the number was actually closer to 35,000." [Brief]
